[comp.emacs] Key Bindings with GNU EMACS rel:18.55

bruno@tongo.dfrf.nasa.gov (Bruno Chenet) (06/07/90)

             Hello,
                    I am using emacs on my SUN SPARK Station and while 
writing some C codes, I am getting really frustrated by the lack of 
power of this editor. Or maybe, it is just the fact that having recently
used the editor from Turbo C, I was spoiled. Anyway, is there somebody
that could tell me how to do the folowing commands in the smallest number
of steps:
1) How to cut and paste a word, line, paragraph?
2) How to set a mark on a particular line, go somewhere else, do some 
   stuff and then go back to my mark.
3) How to know on which line I am ?
4) How to block part of a text and print it, delete it or copy it to some
   other program?
5) Any reference to a good book that can help me master the secrets of emacs.

                I would appreciate any help,
                                Thanks


                                        Bruno

jorgens@solan.unit.no (Kjetil Wiekhorst Joergensen) (06/07/90)

In article <528@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> bruno@tongo.dfrf.nasa.gov (Bruno Chenet) writes:
> 1) How to cut and paste a word, line, paragraph?

cut word:        M-x kill-word (ESC-d)
cut line:        M-X kill-line  (C-k)
cut paragraph:   M-x kill-region

paste:           M-x yank       (C-y)

> 2) How to set a mark on a particular line, go somewhere else, do some 
>    stuff and then go back to my mark.

M-x exchange-point-and-mark (C-x C-x)

> 3) How to know on which line I am ?

M-x what-line

> 4) How to block part of a text and print it, delete it or copy it to some
>    other program?

How to copy part of text:

M-x copy-region-as-kill

How to delete part of text:

M-x kill-region

> 5) Any reference to a good book that can help me master the secrets of emacs.


1: GNU Emacs Manual (Richard Stallman).

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